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...planets, for instance, revolve in the same direction and in almost the same plane. The four inner ones (Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars) are smaller and denser than the outer ones (Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune). Perhaps the most remarkable peculiarity is that the outer planets possess almost all the "angular momentum" (energy of rotation) in the system. Any satisfactory theory of the solar system's origin must account for these "regularities...
...other planemakers were not so happy. Robert Gross, president of the Lockheed Aircraft Corp., announced that his company would show an operating loss this year. Reason: suppliers' strikes, troubles with Constellation production. Because of this and a "diminishing market outlook," Lockheed was abandoning its Saturn feeder plane, on which it had spent some $6 million. Despite a backlog of $156 million, Lockheed expected to cut back...
...arrived at Cambridge in December, 1846, was erected in a 30-feet dome, and thus the College Observatory was born. Obsolete as this ancient refractor now seems, it was instrumental in bringing the Observatory to the world's attention with the discovery of the eighth and ninth satellites of Saturn...
Target for Tonight. In Dinkelsbuhl, Germany, there was a near panic when somebody started a rumor that the planet Saturn had jumped its orbit, was hellbent for Dinkelsbuhl...
...star with the lowest known candle power; Luyten's finding of a pair of white super-dense dwarf stars; the discovery of comets by observers in Finland and New Zealand; and the discovery by Kuiper o fan atmosphere of methane and ammonia on Titan, the largest satellite of Saturn...